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By BONNIE PRICE LOFTON V,, R»PP»k»»»ock Ntw» Contributing Writer «’»■ With 17 no-school days due to weather and winter far from over, hundreds of Rappahannock parents have been asking themselves, “If schoo keeps closing , how is Johnny going to learn to read? How is Mary going to learn to add? '■* > “How is any Rappahannock public.school kid going to be able to compete against anyone else?”
So why hasn’t there been more School?
The Rappahannock News put this question to School Superintendent David Gangel last Thursday, after he had called off school for day.
Sitting in a meeting room at the school board office, Dr. Gangel .looked like a man weary of being -under siege. But he carefully explained his school-closing decisions, leaving no doubt that he had Considered every alternative that anyone had offered. ,j Here’s the gist of his explanation, with additional details supplied by -assistant superintendent Mary Anne Biggs. Int Rappahannock Is Different
For better or for worse, ■Rappahannock County is different from most of Virginia. We pay for nur beauty — for our mountains and fcoflows, for our foggy dips and windswept hills, for our overhanging trees and' winding roads — with weather and driving conditions that are more temperamental than in other places. ' -:: Three people from the county ‘.School system have learned this first-hand. Almost every weekday morning -Since the first snowfall of the winter, Dr. Gangel, Mrs. Biggs and a third 'administrator, David Smith, have been in their cars before daybreak, ^.covering dozens of miles to check ": road conditions.
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